Huge Frosty Lingam in Central Park |:| Om Namo Cock and Balls
I know a lot of you are already “over winter,” but first, just calm down. It’s winter, goddamit. Thank Jah we actually still have one. God just happens to be […]
WELCOME BACK!!! Here’s What’s New and Happening
Hello, friends and friends of friends! Welcome back to NOT NEW YORK. If this is your first time here, congratulations! Your Monday through Friday just got one blog more awesome. […]
Check this out: Macabre & Mysticism show!
I’m starting to find it possible to post stuff again. That’s fantastic, right? Some of the posts might be a bit bare bones to start, but let’s just do this! Here’s an art opening that’s got all the makings of dark mystical greatness. The lovely Phantasmaphile linked it: http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2011/10/macabre-mysticism-show.html
911 “Cross” Still in Ye Olde Hot Seat |:| Will It End Up In Hot Seat Memorial?
Taking that symbol of cathartic hope and making it a symbol of the event itself has got a new cheerleader this week: Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) said he’s pushing for […]
UPDATE: Peter L. Wilson Has Bounced |:| True Vanishing Art
UPDATE: Wilson has been removed from the Vanishing Art event bio list mid-festival. Big salaams and thanks to Mustafa Al-Layla for the tip. It appears Wilson’s name has been removed form the official bios of the festival, suggesting once again that sickness is not the cause of his departure. -end […]
NYC “Fortune Tellers” Charged With Fraud |:| $40 Million Amassed Over 20 Years
These sort of charges always make me feel uneasy.While this case seems pretty straight forward—at least in the instances where valuables were never returned to the customers—I can’t help but feel that fine line between working with a willing participant on matters “unseen” and taking an uninformed and coerced patron […]
Atheists Are Getting Headaches, Depression, and Anxiety from the Cross |:| Want to be Included Too
I suppose on some level I try not to take sides on this blog. Where that “some level” actually resides, however, is very much open to debate. But in this case, the case of American Atheists wanting “equal representation” in the soon-to-be National September 11 Memorial and Museum, I am […]
NYC Rabbi Can Stretch Homophobic (Il)Logic Too |:| Not Just Christians Anymore
Remember when fundi Christians had the whole “The earthquake was punishment for butt sex” game on lockdown? Remember the times when if you heard someone say, “God hates fags” you wouldn’t even have to turn around to see who said it, ’cause you knew it was someone at least partially […]
Gonna Be Away From My Desk…
I’m gonna be away from my desk for the next handful of days. Fret not, I will be back doing all this stuff ASAP. I’m doing this thing that needs to be done. Hang tight!
The Mormons Are Coming! |:| Mormons Are Just Like You |:| But I Bet You Still Don’t Buy It
Get ready, kids, ’cause the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is making their way over to our super “secular” city to promote some multi-culti religious fun. According to the LDS Newsroom, the organization began it’s “I’m a Mormon” campaign here in the city just last week. Looks like […]
Gay Marriage, Gay Pastors, Gay Starbucks Employees |:| New York is So Gay |:| One Vote Away |:| Cross Fingers
Trying to comprehend the ways in which people who happen to like the intimate company of others of a similar gender have had to struggle to be accepted alongside people who happen to like the intimate company of those of a less similar gender is mind-imploding. Seriously, it hurts. If […]
Rabbi Accused of Setting Rival’s House on Fire |:| Green-Eyed Monster Cometh?
You see this? I leave you alone for one second, NYC, and you’ve got rabbis allegedly burning ex-members of their congregation who jumped ship for another temple. From Gothamist: “The Rockland County man who has been hospitalized with third-degree burns over half his body following a crazy arson attempt last […]
Meditation Flash Mob |:| Nail in the Coffin? |:| Making it Anew? |:| Jumping the Shark?
Ahhh… the flash mob. It seems like only yesterday I was reading about Improv Everywhere’s 2008 Grand Central action. People freezing. Guards freaking out. A radical art happening in one of the world’s most active transit hubs post-911! Remember that? Remember that “this is genius” feeling? Well, we’ve come a […]
Three Things You Should Know for This Weekend |:| Kali, Superheroes, and B-Days
Kali Ma Has a New Home in Queens There’s rumors of a new Kali temple having popped up behind the long-standing Ganesh temple out in Flushing, Queens. The new home to She with Disheveled Hair does not have a website and is said to be run by a man who […]
Hillary Clinton Erased from Hasidic Newspaper Photo
Not sure if you caught this a few days ago: The Brooklyn Jewish newspaper, Der Zeitung, was caught erasing both Hillary Clinton and an unnamed female White House staffer from the now famous Situation Room photo capturing the moments when White House peeps were reacting to Osama bin Laden’s (supposed) […]
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